The Trunk of Intuitive Realization—Harnessing the Transformational Energy, Affect and Intuition of the Reward Network to Dissolve the Neural Basis of Stress-Conditioned Habits

The second stage of embodied contemplative healing in the Nalanda tradition is intuitive realization—the bottom-up work of accessing, holding and transmuting embodied traumatic affects, energies and neurogenomic processing from traumatic survival mode to prosocial thriving. This module explores that work and its phases—de-reifying traumatic experience of the body through conscious interoception, calming autonomic reactivity and transforming visceral affect through breath-work, cultivating lucid intuition to expose and transform traumatic conditioning and instincts into flow affects and energies, and harnessing flow states and traits into a dreamlike embodiment of well-being. This work is compared and contrasted with the use of somatic interoception, breath-work, and movement in contemporary trauma therapies, somatic abolitionism and embodied social justice work to extinguish traumatic conditioning and reactivity, and to cultivate a new thriving embodiment of prosocial well-being.